As soon as the train stopped the crowd jostled its way through the doors. From LearnThat.org.
We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Theriot was suspended for causing his mount to "jostle". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Green thatches of interlocking foliage jostle and slalom. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
The jostle moved my joist span; the crane cracked my beams. From Wordnik.com. [Dear England, Please Send Me A Redheaded Boy] Reference
And working men may keep the wall, and jostle prince and peer. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
Government, and jostle Mr.G. 's Chairman of Committees; different. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference
'Tis a grave matter; come, we will push and jostle him without mercy. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Hundreds of passengers jostle with each other as they stream down the jetty. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away] Reference
How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours!. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
His mission: to jostle his way in and be seated, rather than stand the duration. From Wordnik.com. [Ahead of the Game] Reference
Each week, three C-listers jostle to be promoted to a fictional role in the community. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight's TV highlights] Reference
When they reach No. 24, they chat for a moment, while cameramen jostle a few feet away. From Wordnik.com. [Chariots Of Fire] Reference
There she happened to jostle a lieutenant, who, not recognising her, ventured on a protest. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
He'd had a hard time even then, but Brian could always jostle him out of his miserable moods. From Wordnik.com. [The Plinktonians] Reference
They jostle and somersault, a roil& boil that enacts the confinement of the space they're in. From Wordnik.com. [Word Balloon] Reference
The shrines, too, which surround and jostle it, hold the attention and wonder of the visitor. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
When bustles and French heels jostle with your individuality, let them go, but save yourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
For each molecule runs its own machine, and is provident enough to see that they do not jostle. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
But in all these, I was as those that jostle against the rocks; more broken, scattered, and rent. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Men and women in their Oriental dress jostle the crowd of sight-seers who ever throng these ways. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Outside a bookstore deep inside the Washington Belt-way, a horde of reporters jostle for position. From Wordnik.com. [A Powell Scenario] Reference
Unpopular decisions evoke the wrath of many, jostle the insecurities of some and mystify all but a few. From Wordnik.com. [Childless And Proud Of It] Reference
Now local teenagers jostle for space on the tiny patches of green scattered among local residentialblocks. From Wordnik.com. [Delhi battling human and financial cost of hosting Commonwealth Games] Reference
Yet cyclists say riding in Los Angeles can be terrifying, as they jostle with cars and buses on tightly-packed roads. From Wordnik.com. [Villaraigosa Bicycle Summit: Fall From Bike Spins LA Mayor Into Cycle Advocate] Reference
Flashy graphics and raised voices burst through the screen to jostle into our agitated, unfocused, Twitterized minds. From Wordnik.com. [Candy Crowley Unlikely Journey To Sunday Morning Show Host] Reference
They have colonised the catwalks and the front rows; their clothes jostle on shop rails against those created by designers. From Wordnik.com. [Blogs on togs] Reference
It is not the crowd that idly jostle us in the street who can hurt us to the quick, but a familiar friend in whom we trusted. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
It is a city of very wide contrasts, for rich and poor jostle each other on the streets and their homes are often side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
But then there's a piercing scream, a child's scream, and the brakes screech, the bus jolts and passengers jostle in their seats. From Wordnik.com. [Monster] Reference
They jostle her, utter vile imprecations, dispute for the right of carrying her, each in his turn offering to do it a shilling less. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Few regarded him or even seemed to know that he was there, except when in their hurry they found it expedient to jostle him one side. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
They look at each other, they jostle each other, exchange a few common bleatings, and eat together; and so the performance terminates. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Obama will have to jostle with others for the right to take on Hillary Clinton, who has staked out the most cautious policy on the war. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of Lincoln] Reference
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